Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process of giving away U.S. money to strengthen friendly foreign governments sometimes seems to have a built-in mechanism of self-defeat...
...with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, French Premier Michel Debré had one clear purpose: to take a peek up Britain's sleeve and see what, if any, further undeclared cards the "flexible" British were planning to slip onto the table in the forthcoming East-West negotiations. In the process, Debré gave the rest of the Western alliance its first good look...
...discoveries have three important results. First, since researchers now feel that all cases of cerebral palsy (malfunctioning of the human nervous system), are the result of harmful influences during the growth of the embryo, no cure can be effected till the normal process of growth is fully understood. Hicks' experiments have added greatly to this understanding...
...think about but cannot get?" Answering his own question, Nixon invoked the words of the late U.S. Senator Robert Taft: "I do not see how we can hope to secure permanent peace in the world except by establishing law between nations and equal justice under law." The process would need no sweeping new charter said Nixon; the International Court of Justice is already established at The Hague and needs only to be used to be effective. "It would be foolish to suppose that litigation before the court is the answer to all the world's problems," but the areas...
...auspicious area for broadening the rule of law: the economic field, where the process of international investment is sadly in need of a code governing relationship between investors and capital-hungry nations. One positive step that the U.S. can take to broaden the authority of the international court: relaxation of the Connally amendment of 1946. which reserves to the U.S. the right to decide whether to permit disputes to go before the international court. The State Department, said Nixon, is now preparing suitable recommendations to Congress...